I would _love_ to help you build our new visual identity! I have, in fact, been _begging_ for you to let me help. You haven't been.

You require heavy babysitting to _not_ break things. You follow hyped-up design trends, despite the clear and obvious _failures_ of those trends, and you ignore we try to teach you. You don't understand the purpose of the things you cut away. (I find this confusing: the designers I've interacted with are _basically_ competent, but these decisions are _blatantly_ wrong, over and over again.)

Do not use either of these designs. Do not implement _any_ of these proposals. You should _know_ why you cannot use these ideas: we've told you enough times already; and frankly, I'm getting sick of it.

Or if you're not going to involve us, at least do us the dignity of not _pretending_ like you are.